Joe Arpaio Quotes

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

There isn't any way to keep drugs out of this country.

Why should persons in authority wish to keep the dope peddler in business and the illicit drug racket in possession of its billion-dollar income? It will be obvious, I think, that this is the really significant question at issue.... If we, the representatives of the people, are to continue to let our narcotics authorities conduct themselves in a manner tantamount to upholding and in effect supporting the billion-dollar drug racket, we should at least be able to explain to our constituents why we do so

Show me one American drug kingpin who has been put in jail in America. There are a number of Hispanic kingpins from South and Central America but I don’t see any Mr. Smith’s.

… a succession of generals who held the chief antidrug post in Mexico are now in prison for taking part in the very kind of crime they were supposed to prevent.

As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.

As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God.

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.

The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

I have three family members who are in the law enforcement.

Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.

British leadership in Europol has made the law-enforcement agency far more effective, and we have been influential in making human trafficking one of its top priorities.

Being a police officer in America is a tough job.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.